Who was the greatest leader of the USSR?

wendell borton

Well who was it?

nerobert

Stallin.

whupdedo

Tzar nickolas II

biko

Your man with the birthmark on the head,

Hande hoche!

Probably would go with Stalin. Bonus points to Khrushchev for together with Kennedy avoiding nuclear war.

Gorbachev, surely? Russia could do with a man like him in charge now.

wazky

Your man with the Polish accent.

Hande hoche!

Poll could do with being public, to facilitate show trials.

marozz

Gorbachev..

Stavros Murphy

Rasputin.

Miprocin

Gorbachev with Krushchev as a close second.

WoollyRedHat

Lenin, he invented bread.

SilverScreen

Whodyounickabollockov.

redout

Trotsky

macscoob

ivan the terrible

Bruthal

SilverScreen wrote: »

Whodyounickabollockov.

Onyerbacyebic

Me?

Sique Sique Sputnik

Aidric

Nikita Khrushchev

Manach

Putin.

biko

Funniest: the one that was always drunk...





...Lenin

Duckworth_Luas

Brezhnev

He had a certain je ne sais quoi and eyebrows.

SilverScreen

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Brezhnev

He had a certain je ne sais quoi and eyebrows.

That man be pimpin'

moxin

Some fur coat and moobs there Duckworth.(not you! , Brezhnev)

ianobrien

Lenin - The wealthy middleclass man, never had to work for money who'd main weapon was terror. Morphed Marxism into an oppressive state police state.
Stalin - The greatest mass murderer in history. He killed more than Hitler!
Malenkov - Beria's buddy who really started to run the economy into the ground
Khruschev - Wanted to start some reforms, lost face with the Cuban Missile Crises and thanks to the reforms and secret speech got removed by Bhrezhnev and lost the army through Zhukov. No bloody angel mind......
Bhrezhnev - Stalinist hardliner, made the military the centre of the economy and tried to match the West. Enough said.....
Andropov - Stalinist hardliner, lasted only a year in office
Chernenko - See above.
Gorbachev - Did the sensible thing and laid down the policies that broke up the USSR & free'ed Eastern Europe from the Soviet Ideal. The funny thing is that he didn't want to break up the USSR.

Guy:Incognito

It would need to be done top trumps style.

Most public executions
Most people "disappeared"
Most peasants oppressed.
Most henchmen

P_1

Koniev

The Backwards Man

Would have to give the nod to McCartney as he was the one wrote it.

Other than that it was 50/50 lead guitar.

chughes

Andropov and Chernenko were at a huge disadvantage to the other USSR leaders.


Both were dead when appointed to office and were only wheeled out at the May Day parades in Red Square Moscow.


Its hard to make an impression when you have to rely on the skill of an embalmer.

uch

Roy Rodgers

Davarus Walrus

Communism never tended to do good leaders. Seemed to go from incompetent at best to despotic at worst.

bradlente

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Lenin, he invented bread.

Lenins,Todays bread today.

Or in the case of Soviet Russia:

BREADS.TODAY.BREADS.

Highflyer13

I know it was after USSR but Boris Yeltsin seemed like good craic!

robindch

wendell borton wrote:

Who was the greatest leader of the USSR?

Depends on what you mean by "great".

Personally, I'd like to nominate V Putin who's worked night and day to return us to the world to the Cold War.

rwg

why is yuri gagarin not on the poll?

Stavros Murphy

chughes wrote: »

Andropov and Chernenko were at a huge disadvantage to the other USSR leaders.


Both were dead when appointed to office and were only wheeled out at the May Day parades in Red Square Moscow.


Its hard to make an impression when you have to rely on the skill of an embalmer.

His real name was Vorschkov, but the embalmer under-did it on the fluid and his left fore-arm rotted. That's where he got his nom-de-office. The lads asked WTF happened their stiff and yer man said " I do my job, hand drop off",shrugged and left. Little known historical fact.















ish..

feargale

Highflyer13 wrote: »

I know it was after USSR but Boris Yeltsin seemed like good craic!

He gave a whole new meaning to the the description of Shannon Airport as a refuelling stop,

feargale

chughes wrote: »

Andropov and Chernenko were at a huge disadvantage to the other USSR leaders.

Both were dead when appointed to office and were only wheeled out at the May Day parades in Red Square Moscow.

Its hard to make an impression when you have to rely on the skill of an embalmer.

Yes, but the elastic band factory did a good job. Remember the band tied around their necks and linked to their wrists at the May Day parade? It made them wave repeatedly as the parade went by.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Ivana Bacik.

nlgbbbblth

Chernenko because he appeared in the Two Tribes video.

feargale

Ah Stalin is your only man. A few years ago the London Times rated US presidents. Theodore Roosevelt ranked very highly, mainly on the strength of his "vigorous" foreign policy. For "vigorous" read invasion of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines etc., together with approval of the same in Hawaii and other places. On that basis I have no doubt that the Thunderer will endorse my nomination of Uncle Joe.

RobbingBandit

Gotta be the Man of Steel, Super Man Red Son.

UtopianWarlord

Stalin. Took them from a backwards country beaten in WW1 to world superpower

feargale

Highflyer13 wrote: »

I know it was after USSR but Boris Yeltsin seemed like good craic!

He gave a whole new meaning to the the description of Shannon Airport as a refuelling stop,

RobbingBandit

That spot on Gorbachevs head, HERPES...

How can anyone say the greatest leader of CCCP is the man that did a Pizza Hut ad.

Also where is the Putin option, he was head of the KGB after all.

Red Pepper

Leon Trotsky.

SilverScreen

bradlente wrote: »

Lenins,Todays bread today.

Or in the case of Soviet Russia:

BREADS.TODAY.BREADS.

In Soviet Russia, bread eat you.

Red Pepper

feargale wrote: »

Ah Stalin is your only man. A few years ago the London Times rated US presidents. Theodore Roosevelt ranked very highly, mainly on the strength of his "vigorous" foreign policy. For "vigorous" read invasion of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines etc., together with approval of the same in Hawaii and other places. On that basis I have no doubt that the Thunderer will endorse my nomination of Uncle Joe.

Hawaii?

RobbingBandit

Red Pepper wrote: »

Leon Trotsky.

Trotsky 0
Ice Pick 1

Rhys Essien

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Would have to give the nod to McCartney as he was the one wrote it.

Other than that it was 50/50 lead guitar.

I think myself that Lenin was the greatest member of the Beatles.

feargale

Red Pepper wrote: »

Hawaii?

The Kingdom of Hawaii was sovereign from 1810 until 1893 when the monarchy was overthrown by resident American (and some European) businessmen. It was an independent republic from 1894 until 1898, when it was annexed by the United States as a territory.

Oops. Is invasion the wrong word? You mean the whole US army wasn't called in? Call it what you like then. And call the same to Crimea while you're at it.

Re " together with approval of the same in Hawaii " - the same, similar, whatever.

feargale

UtopianWarlord wrote: »

Stalin. Took them from a backwards country beaten in WW1 to world superpower

Hitler came close to making Germany master of the world. If he had succeeded we would all be calling him the greatest, you presumably voluntarily if we read your measuring stick correctly, the rest of us if we knew what's good for us.